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50 Heller Oehling
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Oehling |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFZIG HELLER. NOTGELD ÖHLING NÖ. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Ortsgemeinde Oehling, N.-Oe. gibt wegen Kleingeldmangel Gutscheine zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller aus und haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen. Einlöseschluß 31. Dezember 1920. Bürgermeister: Josef Hinterholzer. Vizebürgermeister: Franz Hehenberger. I. Gemeinderat: Johann Kickinger. Queiser, Amstetten. |
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Oehling is a small municipality in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communes between 1919 and 1921, when chronic coin shortages following the collapse of the Habsburg economy forced even tiny villages to issue their own emergency scrip. The printer, Queiser of Amstetten, handled numerous such commissions from surrounding parishes and market towns in the region — a local job-shop operation rather than a specialist securities printer.
Three signatories authenticate the note, which is more than many comparable issues carried. That detail suggests the Ortsgemeinde was unusually cautious about authorization.